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rikkor on "Dear An Offensive World Now, Apparently"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=24364#post-66328
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:41:30 +0000rikkor66328@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Well, the word "ammuniation" makes it slightly more readable.
</p>Textbook on "Dear An Offensive World Now, Apparently"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=24364#post-66325
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:02:29 +0000Textbook66325@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Be Reasonable gets this months reading comprehension star.
</p>be reasonable on "Dear An Offensive World Now, Apparently"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=24364#post-66293
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:39:12 +0000be reasonable66293@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Offensive 'world'?
</p>OldThingy on "Dear An Offensive World Now, Apparently"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=24364#post-66287
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:57:50 +0000OldThingy66287@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>This dear, works in other ways.<br />
There is a narrow boat on the waterways called "YES DEAR"<br />
When I asked the skipper about it he told me it was how his wife addressed him under command - and I thought it was the skipper deferring his status.<br />
Ok dear.<br />
You're right dear.
</p>riesler on "Dear An Offensive World Now, Apparently"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=24364#post-66269
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:36:46 +0000riesler66269@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>"Does the Honorable Member not realise that the use of anachronistic language could cause The Speaker of the House to summon the Serjeant-at-Arms?"
</p>saltire on "Dear An Offensive World Now, Apparently"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=24364#post-66252
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:44:39 +0000saltire66252@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>'Fat,ugly lesbian objects to being called dear'...Dough,a dear,a female dear.
</p>be reasonable on "Dear An Offensive World Now, Apparently"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=24364#post-66250
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:40:14 +0000be reasonable66250@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Fat, ugly lesbian objects to being called dear. It might have been worse.
</p>John Wiltshire on "Dear An Offensive World Now, Apparently"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=24364#post-66242
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:45:54 +0000John Wiltshire66242@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>A labour MP said: 'It's f***ing outrageous to call a woman "dear". I really hate c***s who use such f***ing offensive language. The Tories are just a bunch of racist f***ing c***s who hate n*gg*rs, w*ps and p*kk**s. They are intolerant racist sexist homophobic scum who have no sense of proportion.'
</p>Pinhead on "Dear An Offensive World Now, Apparently"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=24364#post-66201
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:37:29 +0000Pinhead66201@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Mis-use of the N word still niggles me.
</p>saltire on "Dear An Offensive World Now, Apparently"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=24364#post-66200
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:31:18 +0000saltire66200@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Dearie,dearie me. Have some stars querido.
</p>Textbook on "Dear An Offensive World Now, Apparently"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=24364#post-66196
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:58:59 +0000Textbook66196@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Loving couples and letter writers the world over have been horrified to discover that for years they have been bandying about a word which oppresses and demeans women. "Dear", once casually used by chauvinists and misogynists of all stripes to put down women, is now consigned to the same dust-bin of history as the infamous N word.</p>
<p>Some have argued that the word is not so much offensive as it anachronistic. "I am upset that our prime minister used the word" said one female Labour minister, "but only because it's kind of quaint and old-fashioned. If he had used bitch or ho or trick or something of that nature, not only would he have seemed more in touch with modern times, but we really would have had something to get at him about.</p>
<p>David Cameron who began the controversy by using the term in parliament is, perhaps surprisingly, delighted by the uproar. "The opposition clearly hasn't got any ammuniation against me if they're resorting to calling "dear" an offensive word" remarks Cameron. He is in discussions about the possibility of using the term "shawty" in the future.
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